Empowering Nonprofits for Impact
At Missionful, we are dedicated to supporting non-profit organizations with authenticity and integrity. Our mission-driven consulting services provide customized strategies for campaign planning, gift solicitation, and donor cultivation. Let us help you strengthen your organization and achieve your goals.
Missionful: Driving missions to make a difference.
Missionful Services
Capital Campaigns
Does your capital campaign have a success strategy? Missionful starts by finding new pools of potential donors and sees the campaign through to fulfilling the final capital gift. Guiding you in gift solicitation, ensuring both a strategic and heartfelt message, and resulting in building broader and deeper relationships with donors for sustained support now and ongoing.
Board Training and Workshops
What's your non-profit education plan? Missionful provides board coaching sessions and staff workshops tailored to equip your team with the tools and skills necessary for effective fundraising and donor engagement. These interactive sessions foster learning and collaboration that build stronger relationships internally and strengthen your impact externally.
Annual Fund
Do you raise funds year-round? Missionful focuses your annual fund strategies to help find new donors while engaging and retaining existing ones. Our proven approach builds relationships and enhances donor loyalty and attracts new supporters tied to mission. From grant writing to year-end campaigns, our annual fund strategy is a cornerstone to your fundraising.
Strategic Communications
What's your story? Missionful builds a layered story to connect with your audience. Creating targeted, consistent messaging reaches the hearts of donors and prospects helping organizations thrive. We prepare campaign strategy, using digital and traditional marketing, coach and train staff and board members on messaging, and raise awareness and funds for your organization.
Evaluation and Impact Assessment
What should you measure? Missionful uses data to shape decisions. Non-profits have gold hiding in their databases, CRMs, and spreadsheets. Evaluating impact on mission provides critical insights saving time and money you can put back into the most needed areas. Using our proven assessments provides you with valuable connections to inform future strategies and improvements.
Prospect Research
Need more information about your donors? Missionful creates lists of new potential major donors who already support causes like yours. Maximize fundraising by identifying new donors, researching existing donors and providing critical insights into donor relationships. We ensure campaigns reach engaged philanthropic donors excited by your message and ready to move forward.
Capital Campaigns & Board Training and Staff Workshops
Capital Campaigns
First capital campaign or your seventh? Missionful works with organizations to get them ready for large capital investment walking through every phase.
There are five phases to a capital campaign.
Determine readiness
Line up the team
Silent Phase brings majority of gifts
Public Phase
Close out sets up next campaign
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Board Training & Staff Workshops
Board training is a critical tool in the non-profit toolbox.
Perfect for newer board members and for those looking to level up skills such as fundraising, Missionful has the training you need.
With 20+ years of experience Missionful board and staff trainings are fun and filled with hands-on interaction.
Board & Staff Trainings:
Full-day & Multi-day Board Retreats
Board Fundraising Training (Basic, Advanced & Campaign)
Exceptional & Effective Boards Training
Strategic Planning Session (for Strategic plans)
Board Matrix Strategic Session
Tactical Fundraising Training for Non-Profit Teams
Strategic Communications
Annual Fund & Strategic Communications
Annual Fund
Your bread-and-butter of fundraising—we know that fundraising is more than big campaigns and flashy events.
We know that you need a good foundation of regular donations coming in to support your day-to-day operations. Whether you are looking to:
Grow your membership
Start a monthly giving program
Improve your year-end campaign
Create a fundraising plan
Expand your grant writing
Or just figure out how to improve your overall annual fundraising...
Missionful is the team for you.
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Strategic Communications
Fundraising is only as good as the relationships you have built—and relationships are only as good as your communication.
Use the decades of Missionful team experience to create:
An integrated communications program that completely works together
Annual appeals
Case for Support
Message Maps
Impact Reports
Annual Reports
Printed & digital pieces that support your organizational goals & aspirations
Daily, weekly, or monthly emails, newsletters, and communications
Evaluation and Impact Assessment & Prospect Research
Evaluation & Impact Assessment
When you've done everything you can to grow your non-profit and don't what else you can do to grow, the next steps are usually hidden in your data.
Missionful's Data Evaluations and Impact Assessments help you find hidden solutions—from underdeveloped aspects of your donor file to finding leading metrics to increase your programmatic impact. Missionful is your partner in getting more out of the actions you are already performing.
Prospect Research
Your next major gift may be hiding in your database. But who are they? Major donors don't always appear to be major donors—or perhaps you need more major donors who like the ones you already have. But how can you find them quickly enough to make a difference for your mission.
Either way, Missionful has your back. Let us do the research to find you the donors you need.
Client Experiences
Meet Missionful
Elizabeth Finlayson
Elizabeth has a passion for helping organizations hone their programming models and develop new revenue streams to support their life-giving work. With more than 20-years of experience as a non-profit, strategic fundraising consultant, Elizabeth has worked in every area of non-profit development, leading organizations through strategic planning and board retreats, and every phase of fund-raising campaigns from pre-planning through execution and post-campaign stewardship.
David Kaufman
Dave's super powers are his unique problem-solving skills, coupled with creative design and a strategic vision. This 25+-year marketing veteran and entrepreneur is our go-to for creating websites that "do" something, and using design that "means" something. He understands and supports brand positioning for both traditional and digital marketing. Dave has led successful campaigns for Accenture, Warner Bros., Motorola, Hewitt, Grainger, Sears and Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts.
Lisa Raatz
Lisa, a problem solver by nature, brings out the best in clients, providing them with the communication tools and coaching they need to persuade, inspire and clarify. An award-winning communications strategist and writer, with more than 25 years of experience, Lisa helps organizations tell stories and engage audiences, translating strategy into action. She has worked with a variety of not-for-profit organizations as well as Fortune 500 companies such as Henry Schein, Avanos, Allstate, Monsanto/Searle and Tenneco.